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A review by ihateprozac
Captured by Beverly Jenkins
3.0
This had an action-packed opening and ending, but the entire middle section really missed the mark.
I thought we were going to get way more pirate shenanigans! I would've liked to see more of Dominic being a badass and freeing the slaves on Martinique, taking slavers hostage, and stealing gold and jewels. Instead we mostly got Clare sitting around, a few passing references to past adventures, and what was frankly a boring romance.
I thought Clare was super feisty when she was initially captured, but her and Dominic quickly fell into lukewarm instalove. I liked that he challenged her judgements about his career, as well as pushing her to be free and reclaim her life, but that was only a small part of the story. Both of them just became so passive and soppy and it was super boring to read.
There was some SUPER fun action and revenge meted out at the end, but it just couldn't make up for the bland romance and meandering middle act. ;_________; (Though it saved this 2 star review and bumped it up to 3...)
I thought we were going to get way more pirate shenanigans! I would've liked to see more of Dominic being a badass and freeing the slaves on Martinique, taking slavers hostage, and stealing gold and jewels. Instead we mostly got Clare sitting around, a few passing references to past adventures, and what was frankly a boring romance.
I thought Clare was super feisty when she was initially captured, but her and Dominic quickly fell into lukewarm instalove. I liked that he challenged her judgements about his career, as well as pushing her to be free and reclaim her life, but that was only a small part of the story. Both of them just became so passive and soppy and it was super boring to read.
There was some SUPER fun action and revenge meted out at the end, but it just couldn't make up for the bland romance and meandering middle act. ;_________; (Though it saved this 2 star review and bumped it up to 3...)